Sharing information with Microsoft® Office users
WordPerfect® Office makes it easy to share documents with Microsoft® Office users. WordPerfect has compatibility features that let you open and edit Microsoft® Word files. You can then save the file in the native file format of Microsoft Word (DOC), allowing for the sharing of files across applications.
Sharing WordPerfect® documents with Microsoft® Word users
In WordPerfect, you can open documents created in Microsoft® Word for MS-DOS® versions 1.0 , 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 5.5, Microsoft Word for Windows® 6.0, and 7.0, and Microsoft Word 97, 2000, and XP (2002). The opening process automatically converts the file to the WordPerfect format.
To share a WordPerfect file with a Microsoft Word user, you can save the WordPerfect document as a Microsoft Word file. The saving process automatically converts the document to the Microsoft Word format.
If you're working with a Microsoft Word file in WordPerfect, you can save the file as a Microsoft Word file. You can specify the Microsoft Word file format as the default format when saving files, or you can choose to automatically save files in the same file format in which they were opened. If you don't specify the Microsoft Word format when saving, the file is saved as a WordPerfect file by default.
To open a Microsoft® Word document
- Click File > Open.
- Choose the drive and folder where the Microsoft Word file is stored.
Choose Microsoft Word from the File type box.
- Click the Microsoft Word file.
- Click Open.
To save a WordPerfect® document as a Microsoft® Word document
- Click File > Save as.
- Choose the drive and folder where you want to save the file.
- Type the filename in the File name box.
- Choose an MS Word format from the File type list box.
- Click Save.
To automatically save Microsoft® Word files opened in WordPerfect® to the Microsoft Word format
- Click Tools > Settings, and choose Files.
- On the Document page, choose a version of MS Word format from the Default save file format list box.
